📣 Climate scientists! The UK is talking about North Sea oil & gas again. Obviously, that's a dumb idea if we want a liveable planet. I've written an open letter to UK party leaders, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... To sign it, fill this out: forms.gle/mFcbhueTJusN... Please share! 🙏

Comments due tomorrow! AGU is in the process of updating 3 member-led position statements on education, rights of scientists, and funding for science. Your comments are a crucial part of the reoccurring four-year process by which AGU statements are reviewed. Learn more: buff.ly/MLfyidA

we all know how this ends.

AGU is in the process of updating 3 member-led position statements on education, rights of scientists, and funding for science. Your comments are a crucial part of the reoccurring four-year process by which AGU statements are reviewed. Read more and submit your comments by 3/31: buff.ly/MLfyidA

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$10B DHS slush fund has the same annual budget as the entire EPA or the National Science Foundation and have some left over.

Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yes to pizza. Bagels on the other hand…

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

🌌 Get to know AGATA 🔭 Earth's poles are portals to space. AGATA decodes how they interact through our atmosphere to shape global climate. Learn more about the work of AGATA and how to get involved in our new video! youtu.be/zbYtKKhsJj0

Do you know any outstanding mid-career scientists with significant contributions to the understanding of atmospheric processes through interdisciplinary collaboration? Nominate them for the Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Sciences today: https://bit.ly/40JalER

I was recently in Chile and the proliferation of EVs from all over the place (including China) is incredible. Those of us living the in a US obsessed with gas cars will increasingly look like a weird rural commune rejecting modernity.

Attention Physical Oceanographers....NOAA is hiring?! 5 positions, closing date is 3/25 so hurry. 🌊🧪 #oceanography www.usajobs.gov/job/861651700

Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...

Max knows this, but for others: ability to obligate does not mean money actually flows down to the program level and grants get funded. We have seen this at NSF, which has had the ability to obligate for a month, but has few funds at the program level, leading to an ongoing grantmaking delay.

I’ve recently started using ”NSF” as a unit worth USD$9B (roughly, the yearly budget of the national science foundation) to help me understand the priorities of this country. The war in Iran has cost 2.67 NSFs in a few weeks. Let’s never talk again about science costing too much.

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Monday, Day 1: Polar Film Festival (PFF) theme: Through an Artistic Lens. Access all films, see the daily highlights, read a mini-blog from the filmmakers, and register for Friday's Filmmaker's Roundtable at: www.usapecs.org/polar-film-f...

❗NEW POSITION! Postdoctoral research fellow at the Geophysical Institute and the Bjerknes Centre, within physical oceanography. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years and is associated with the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. 🧪🌊 @unibergen.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

You can also use this easy template from @ucs.org to urge Congress to oppose the administration's plans to dismantle NCAR.

This is potentially huge. A whistleblower reported that OMB officials proposed transferring NCAR’s space weather program to a private, for-profit company, violating NSF’s public comment period and statutory limits.

🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!

Hi all, the ❄️ Antarctic Science International Bursary ❄️ is open until 20 March! £6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an... Apply here! 👇👇 please share/repost

A new ocean research ship is a rare and exciting event, but today the Netherlands said an official hello to its brand new ship RV Anna Weber-van Bosse. 🌊🌊 80 metres long, 47 berths and with high sustainability ambitions. Hello Anna! www.nioz.nl/en/facilitie...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

AMS is responding to the potential dismantling of NCAR through statements, advocacy, and leveraging the voices of our community and partners. The deadline to respond to NSF’s request for information about NCAR is 13 March. Share your perspective today. Learn more: https://bit.ly/40tcZPv

This is going to be useful: The CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) for derived data from the CMIP archives: dashboard.climate-ref.org Still working out the kinks and focused on CMIP6, but will expand for CMIP7. #CMIP2026

OK, that's one glowing AI article too many in Nature and one cosy fireside editorial too many from Science. Can we have a prestige journal with a bit of attitude please, a little bite, a hint of tooth. Articles I want to read not shred. Papers the authors might actually have enjoyed writing.

Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end… Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

“We have observational evidence and ocean modeling results to document that kilometer-scale seawater intrusions beneath grounded ice generate a high melt in the [grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier].” www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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The School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware is hiring! We are looking for a talented Coastal Physical Oceanographer to join us. More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

I beg a major publication to publish a list of Nobel Prize winner who are immigrants to this country.

The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it. If you use Python for your work, consider donating! More info here:

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

All of my students have heard me tell horror stories about people who don't back up their work. I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase": playbill.com/article/cat-...

The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it. If you use Python for your work, consider donating! More info here:

The government demanding a billion dollars from UCLA.

🌊 #Postdoc position available 📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP). Requirements ✅ PhD in physical #oceanography To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...

UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians www.latimes.com/california/s...

If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️

I let the SSD of my Mac get to 99% usage and let me tell you, don’t do this.

At this moment, it makes a huge difference to have a University President that’s more than a mere administrator or fundraiser. We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.

The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.

Speaking as a professor, the why is easy. There is less money to pay grad students, and more uncertainty, so to avoid getting ourselves in a position where we can’t pay students the salaries we promised them (students get paid), we take fewer students.

If you’re going to have a doppelgänger, get yourself a famous movie director or, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social, one you can write a good book about. Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.